Marianne McCraney is a Bay Area studio artist who works in mixed media as well as drawing and painting. Her subjects include ancestry, elder life and our connection to nature, especially birds’ nests and pandemic life. Marianne McCraney received her BFA at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and her MFA from John F Kennedy University in Berkeley, CA. Her work has been shown at the Art Center Gallery in Pasadena CA, Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA, the Hollis Street Project, in Emeryville, CA, the Sonoma Art Center in Sonoma, CA, John F Kennedy University Gallery in Emeryville, CA, and O’Hanlon Cultural Center in Mill Valley, CA, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Ore, Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, Arizona